Kerry Hughes, MSc, President of Ethnopharm LLC
& Advisor for A Greener World
Ethnobotanist, Herbalist and Author, Kerry Hughes – works at the nexus of market opportunity identification, innovative product formulation, and global biodiversity development. Kerry is driven by a tenacious fascination with the potential health-enhancing role plants can play and bring about products and solutions that heal people and protect our threatened global biodiversity through her work in both the public and private sectors.
Kerry is a product developer, independent formulator, and consultant through Ethnopharm LLC (www.Ethnopharm.com ). Products formulated by Kerry Hughes of EthnoPharm have been featured in top popular media such as Vogue, Chalkboard, Entrepreneur, Cool Hunting, Cheddar, and Byrdie, with reviews such as “it’s the real deal,” “…pioneering a new category of natural health products”, “..flowing all day, yet at night was able to fall asleep without the usual jittery extended caffeine release”, “..my new favorite thing”.
Kerry also serves as an Advisor for Certified Regenerative by AGW, a program of the non-profit certifier, A Greener World (AGW). Kerry played a vital role in the development and establishment of the Fair for Life Social & Fair Trade Programme through The Institute for Market Ecology (IMO), and today is continuing her work developing meaningful sustainability solutions through the launch of the new Certified Regenerative by AGW program, a whole-farm assurance of regeneration, measuring benefits for soil, water, air, biodiversity, infrastructure, animal welfare and social responsibility.
Kerry’s love of natural products has compelled her to write and speak frequently on a variety of subjects. Her writing includes the recently published Botanicals With Benefits: Establish a New Relationship with your garden (2021), as well as these in-depth text books: Understanding Socio-Ecological Systems through Decoloniality: Convergence of Indigenous and Western Knowledge (Springer; in press); The Incense Bible, Taylor & Francis (2007), one of the first scientific reviews & examinations of incense; The Health Professionals Guide to Dietary Supplements, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (2006), a peer-reviewed guide to herbs and nutritional supplements; and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Haworth Press (2002) an in-depth text-book on the medical aspects of many of our top supplements. Additionally, she has authored over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on various natural product topics.
Kerry serves as a Board of Directors Member at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, and on Scientific Advisory Boards. Kerry has acted as a consultant to the United Nations through the International Trade Centre (ITC) for international development projects involving botanicals and authored essential oil and organic reports for the Market News Service (MNS).
Ethnobotanist, Herbalist and Author, Kerry Hughes – works at the nexus of market opportunity identification, innovative product formulation, and global biodiversity development. Kerry is driven by a tenacious fascination with the potential health-enhancing role plants can play and bring about products and solutions that heal people and protect our threatened global biodiversity through her work in both the public and private sectors.
Kerry is a product developer, independent formulator, and consultant through Ethnopharm LLC (www.Ethnopharm.com ). Products formulated by Kerry Hughes of EthnoPharm have been featured in top popular media such as Vogue, Chalkboard, Entrepreneur, Cool Hunting, Cheddar, and Byrdie, with reviews such as “it’s the real deal,” “…pioneering a new category of natural health products”, “..flowing all day, yet at night was able to fall asleep without the usual jittery extended caffeine release”, “..my new favorite thing”.
Kerry also serves as an Advisor for Certified Regenerative by AGW, a program of the non-profit certifier, A Greener World (AGW). Kerry played a vital role in the development and establishment of the Fair for Life Social & Fair Trade Programme through The Institute for Market Ecology (IMO), and today is continuing her work developing meaningful sustainability solutions through the launch of the new Certified Regenerative by AGW program, a whole-farm assurance of regeneration, measuring benefits for soil, water, air, biodiversity, infrastructure, animal welfare and social responsibility.
Kerry’s love of natural products has compelled her to write and speak frequently on a variety of subjects. Her writing includes the recently published Botanicals With Benefits: Establish a New Relationship with your garden (2021), as well as these in-depth text books: Understanding Socio-Ecological Systems through Decoloniality: Convergence of Indigenous and Western Knowledge (Springer; in press); The Incense Bible, Taylor & Francis (2007), one of the first scientific reviews & examinations of incense; The Health Professionals Guide to Dietary Supplements, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (2006), a peer-reviewed guide to herbs and nutritional supplements; and Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Haworth Press (2002) an in-depth text-book on the medical aspects of many of our top supplements. Additionally, she has authored over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on various natural product topics.
Kerry serves as a Board of Directors Member at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, and on Scientific Advisory Boards. Kerry has acted as a consultant to the United Nations through the International Trade Centre (ITC) for international development projects involving botanicals and authored essential oil and organic reports for the Market News Service (MNS).
Global Food Forums Presentations by Speaker
2022 Protein Trends & Technologies Seminar
Regenerative Agriculture: What’s Behind The Animal & Plant Protein Market Opportunity
Projected to grow at a CAGR of 14.4% through 2030, the fast-growing Regenerative Agriculture market represents an opportunity in protein production that comes with the benefit of sustaining and regenerating the environment. This presentation will give an overview of the main principles and certification options that have emerged on the market. As an Advisor for A Greener World (AGW), the speaker will discuss the newly launched Certified Regenerative by AGW seal as well as case studies, from small to large farms, about how farmers are implementing regenerative agriculture. She will also discuss how it brings animal production back into a growing market opportunity with its inherent philosophy of high welfare protein production.
